Six North of Sixty° explorers, led by Aaron Doering, LTML co-director, are gearing up to undertake an expedition in April 2013, pulking from Qikiqtarjuaq to Pangnirtung in Nunavut, Canada. The team will also visit schools and interview teachers, students, elders, and others in both communities,...

A huge thanks to Roger Landsberg who flew over from Australia to give a presentation at the LT Media Lab this past Friday. We couldn't have asked for a more engaged audience and we want to thank everyone for coming out!
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The Avenue world languages e-assessment platform (see http://ave.umn.edu/info) inched closer this week to a planned summer launch on the iPad. Congrats to Judah on the first stable build that we tested on the iPad around the office! The Avenue project is led by Dr. Charles...

Scott Spicer defended his Masters Thesis this week in Learning Technologies. Scott's thesis focuses on and is titled "The Relationship Between Digital Storytelling Creation and Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Media Production Skill Sets in First Year College Students." Scott's adviser was Dr. Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director)...

We've just launched an exciting new project called North of Sixty°. Its mission is to create a global tapestry of climate stories that weaves together the history, culture, and traditional ecological knowledge of Arctic communities worldwide.
The North of Sixty° project is collaborating with classrooms from throughout the circumpolar...

Angel Pazurek recently presented at a workshop on technology integration in higher education for faculty in the teacher education program at Seattle University. Theoretical and practical elements of the workshop centered on the unique pedagogical and instructional design considerations necessary to facilitate meaningful and engaging...

EMC was back in the LT offices, this time joined by Eric Cantor, President and CEO of New Mountain Learning. Everyone involved is getting very excited for the progress in making this collaborative effort a success!
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LT’s Angel Pazurek recently attended and presented at the 2012 annual conference of the American Association for Adult & Continuing Education (AAACE) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of this year’s conference was "Developing and Sustaining Adult Learners in the 21st Century" and Pazurek attended...

Sherene Azar, a former MEd student in the Learning Technologies program at the University of Minnesota, has joined the LTML team to lead the support and marketing development for the Avenue World Languages project.
Avenue is is an innovative e-assessment platform for building custom language tasks...

Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections and Challenges (2013) (edited by JuliAnna Ávila Jessica Zacher Pandya)
The contributors to this edited book examine the simultaneous implementation of critical and digital literacies and explore ramifications for the development and assessment of critical digital literacies (CDL) curricula across educational...

Research in the Teaching of English’s annual publication of its annotated bibliography of selected empirical research studies as well as titles of other related studies and books published between summer 2011 and summer 2012 has just been released. A large group of scholars from around the...

This morning Cassie Scharber and Angel Pazurek co-presented the opening keynote for a professional development workshop with the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning and Adult Basic Education (ABE) which is affiliated with the St. Paul Public Schools' Community Education Department. The workshop for adult educators,...

If you want to come out and see some of the new research and development that LT and LTML has been working on, we have 10 presentations next week at AACE ELearn (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/) in Montreal beginning October 9. Please see the schedule below if you...

Dr. Charles Miller (Co-Director, LT Media Lab) will deliver the opening keynote address for the EduTech 2012 conference at the McNamara Alumni Center (University of Minnesota) on Monday October 8 at 8:20am. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will present the welcome address and will...

Dr. Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director) was appointed to the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) E-Learn Executive Committee for a 3-year term for 2012, 2013, and 2014. AACE E-Learn is a leading international conference that serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the...

Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education, the latest documentary program produced by American RadioWorks and airing on American Public Radio throughout the country, features LTML's innovative approach to online learning by integrating social media. Stephen Smith, program editor and author, spent a great...

Charles Miller and the LT Media Lab met with Michael Billington (Interpretive Naturalist) and Gail Buhl (Education Manager) from the University of Minnesota Raptor Center to discuss collaborative opportunities on current Raptor Center projects and future partnership opportunities between LTML and the Raptor Center. They...

Joel Donna, Lecturer of Learning Technologies, was named a 2012 Bush Fellow. During his fellowship he will bring together education stakeholders in the region to share, refine and make available online the collective instructional wisdom of the science education community to support teachers and improve science learning for all students....

Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director) and Brad Hosack (LTML Lead Designer) launched Flipgrid yesterday at the 2012 CEHD Fall Assembly. Flipgrid is a simple and innovative tool in which students use webcams to respond to teacher generated questions in fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face classes.
Flipgrid is...

Aaron Doering provided insight for an article on tech integration into education in the St. Paul Pioneer Press:
"St. Paul schools Superintendent Valeria Silva has glimpsed the "future of education": a reimagined school district where students can learn 24/7 and set their own pace in the...

The LT Media Lab welcomes the newest member of the design team, Judah Frangipane. Judah will be serving as a developer on the expanding Avenue: World Language E-Assessment platform, working closely with Luke Lecheler (Avenue Lead Developer) and Dr. Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director)....